Frantic brides-to-be descended on Alfred Angelo Bridal stores across the country Thursday amid reports that the company was closing all of its locations by the end of the day.

Police responded to at least one location in Washington state where a group of angry customers gathered outside, banging and rattling the locked doors. And in Texas, San Antonio police tells NBC they received at least three 911 calls from desperate brides seeking help to retrieve their time-sensitive dresses.

"Panic, complete and utter disarray," Julie Jones, a bride-to-be who ordered several gowns from one of the retailer’s Southern California stores, told NBC San Diego. "I am crying hysterically. My poor fiance is tired of hearing about it because I can't stop crying about it."

The Wall Street Journal reports, citing company sources, that Alfred Angelo Bridal hired Miami-based law firm Stearns, Weaver, and Miller to guide the company through legal proceedings for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. NBC has not independently confirmed the WSJ report and Alfred Angelo and the firm did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

At Alfred Angelo’s headquarters in Florida, employees were reportedly seen leaving the company’s corporate Delray Beach office Thursday “en masse,” according to the Palm Beach Post. And as social media buzzed of a rumored bankruptcy, the bridal retailer remained silent.

Angry customers turned to Facebook and Twitter to vent their frustrations over the sudden closures and the Delcompany's lack of a response

"@AlfredAngelo seriously your closing and half my bridal party doesn't have their dresses. #banruptcy," Jamie, of Pennsylvania, wrote on Twitter.

Ohio bride-to-be Amber McGraw said she didn't know how to describe the "sick feeling" she had paying "for a wedding dress I won't get." She added: "I'm getting married in 64 days and now have to look for a new dress and hope I find the money to pay for it #robbed."

"Alfred Angelo sounds like they won't honor the three bridesmaid dresses already ordered and paid for for mine & @JLynnWorden's wedding," wrote Twitter user Danny Surman.

Some customers say they were notified earlier Thursday to pick up their orders before stores shuttered their doors for good at the end of the day. Others learned of the closures through social media and arrived only to find the locations closed.

Brides who ordered Alfred Angelo dresses say they aren’t sure if they will ever get their dream gown while several customers reported stores were unable to process refunds because the credit card machines were no longer working.

"They said, 'We can't do any refunds, we can't do anything to help you,'" said Kathy Hunt, who told NBC Los Angeles she was out $1,100 for her daughter's dress.

But it's not just customers who were caught off-guard. Mollie Frish, a seamstress at the Alfred Angelo store in Manchester, Connecticut, said employees were advised at the beginning of their shift on Thursday morning that it would be their last day of work.

"Many of these girls, this is their livelihood and they are without a job suddenly. Are they going to get paid? We don't know," Frish told NBC Connecticut.

Founded in 1933 by Alfred Angelo Piccione and Edythe Vincent Piccione, the company eventually grew to operating more than 60 stores nationwide and selling merchandise in more than 1,400 retail stores across the U.S. and around the globe.

Valen Studios Bridal Boutique, which carries Alfred Angelo dresses in its Chicago store, says it has about 50 orders pending and the company has been vague about what the closure means for her customers. The shop's manager, Erica Janel, told NBC Chicago that if Alfred Angelo Bridal doesn't fulfill her brides' orders, Valen plans to refund those customers out of their own pocket.

David's Bridal, a rival bridal chain, offered brides a light at the end of the altar: a special discount to bride's affected by the closures.

Customers with outstanding orders or who want to file a claim are directed to contact:

Store employee Jo Acchione, left, stands near as former Army National Guard member, Jennifer Dunn, is overcome as she chooses a wedding gown at Alfred Angelo Bridal, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, in Cherry Hill, N.J. The company closed all of its stores on Thursday and filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Friday.

Filintarakis said she had heard from a friend that the store was about to permanently close at 8 p.m. Thursday. She said she had already paid approximately $2,000 for her wedding dress, but was not scheduled to pick it up until Sunday.

With the doors about to lock for good, Filintarakis needed to get here fast.

"For them to call us and say 'We're closing the doors. You're not going to be able to get anything from us', it was shocking," said Sara Brewer, of Enfield, who went to the store to purchase and pick up a dress that her friend in Virginia was interested in buying.

Mollie Frish, a contract seamstress, has worked at the Alfred Angelo Bridal in Manchester for six years and said all of the employees at her store were told at the beginning of their shifts, that Thursday would be there last day of work.

According to Frish, a manager told employees that Alfred Angelo Bridal, which is based in south Florida, was shutting down dozens of locations nationwide because of financial problems.

"Many of these girls, this is their livelihood and they are without a job suddenly. Are they going to get paid? We don't know," said Frish.

Customers and employees said this store is in the process of shipping dresses to people who had already paid for the items but were unable to make it by closing time.

Officials from the Department of Consumer Protection said Friday that they are in the process of contacting the store.

They advise customers to gather all copies of contracts, proof of payments made and put together a summary of the status of transactions with Alfred Angelo, including estimated delivery dates, scheduled fittings and any other arrangements that were made and contact the department.

NBC Connecticut reached out for more information and comment from the corporate headquarters of Alfred Angelo Bridal multiple times Thursday but received no response. We tried again Friday morning and calls went to a voicemail box that was full.

A 62-year-old man is in critical condition after he was assaulted during a fight on the New Haven Green Thursday night, according to police.

Police officers responded to a report of a fight on the lower city green at 11:15 p.m. Thursday and found the victim, a 62-year-old New Haven man, unresponsive on the ground and another man was hurrying toward Chapel Street. A bludgeoning weapon was found with the victim, according to police.

Officer John Moore spotted 39-year-old William Joseph McKinney, of New Haven, who matched the description of the assailant, as he hurried toward College Street.

Police said his hands were bloody and officers asked him if he’d been in the fight. McKinney admitted he had been, but claimed self-defense, according to police who said they found a bludgeoning weapon with the victim.

The victim, who suffered severe face and head injuries, was rushed to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he is in critical condition, according to police.

Trudeau pointed out how there are nine-million jobs dependent on Canadian companies in the United States and they touch just about every state.

The focus of his comments was on President Donald Trump’s campaign, and now presidential promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, struck in the 1990’s between Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

Trudeau says he is open to changing the agreement, but won’t weaken his country’s position.

“We think it should be modernized as it has been a dozen times over the past quarter century and I have every expectation that it will be to the ultimate benefit of working people in all three partner countries,” Trudeau said.

As a lobbyist bridging the worlds of the former Soviet Union and the United States, Rinat Akhmetshin has the reputation of a charming, skillful, behind-the-scenes operator, NBC News reported.

But now Akhmetshin, 49, finds himself in the spotlight after being revealed as the man who accompanied Moscow lawyer Natalia Veselniskaya to a meeting with top Trump campaign officials in June 2016, including Donald Trump Jr., the president's son.

His background in counterintelligence in the Soviet military for a couple of years as young man is under scrutiny, along with his client list, and court cases that include unproven accusations of involvement in hacking and smear campaigns.

In this photo provided by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Rinat Akhmetshin is photographed at the Newseum in Washington, June 13, 2016, after a documentary screening. Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee says reports that a second Russian person was in a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. last summer "adds another deeply disturbing fact about this secret meeting." Akhmetshin confirmed his participation to The Associated Press on Friday, July 14, 2017.

Thermal images of North Korea's main nuclear site show more plutonium than previously thought, which can be used to grow its nuclear weapons stockpile, a U.S. think tank said on Friday.

The analysis by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korean monitoring group, was based on satellite images of the radiochemical laboratory at the Yongbyon nuclear plant from September until the end of June, NBC News reported, citing Reuters.

Images of the uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon could also indicate operation of centrifuges used to increase North Korea’s stock of enriched uranium, its other source of bomb fuel, 38 North said.

North Korea has been working to develop a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the U.S. Last week North Korea tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, which experts said had the range to hit all of Alaska and parts of the Pacific Northwest.

Republicans are considering advancing their health care bill without an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on a major new provision that insurers warn would wreak havoc on customers, NBC News reported.

The CBO analyzed a previous version of the Senate bill last month, finding it would cover 22 million fewer people than current law. That was also before GOP leaders added a new amendment pushed by conservative members that would allow insurers to sell unregulated plans without protections for pre-existing conditions and without requirements that they cover various benefits guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act.

The CBO score on the new bill is expected to be announced early next week, days ahead of the expected vote. But senators say the score may not include the sweeping changes to insurance regulations initially proposed by Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.

It's extremely rare for significant legislation to be voted on without a score from the CBO.

In this file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talks to reporters with Sen. John Barrosso (R-WY) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) following their party's weekly policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol May 16, 2017, in Washington, DC.

The Waterbury Police Department is investigating eight incidents in the last several weeks of cars being damaged with large rocks.

Devin Aurio, of Waterbury, was driving his Toyota Corolla Thursday at about 1:20 a.m. on East Main Street near the Boys and Girls Club, when a rock was thrown onto his windshield from what appeared to be an upper level window.

“I was driving home coming up East Main Street from downtown and all of a sudden this rock came smashing through the windshield," Aurio said. “I ended up stopping for a second, but then I drove away because I didn’t want to stand there and wait for whoever threw the rock. So I go home, I call police, I filed a police report, but you know there was just glass everywhere.”

On Sunday night, his car and his mother’s 2004 Honda Civic were parked outside their home on Celia Avenue between 11 and 11:30 p.m. when their cars were damaged by rocks again. One cracked Aurio’s windshield and another rock damaged the side of his mother’s car.

The guns will be destroyed, unless forensic testing shows been used in a crime. The Newtown Action Alliance, which will collect the guns, said they plan to turn them into garden tools, which will be donated to community gardens.

“Music is not the problem, I never hear any music at all what I hear is people coming out from the party continuing right on the street,” Sullivan said.

West Hartford Police and the restaurant's owner and attorney met for nearly and hour-long hearing Wednesday to review the possible suspension of the restaurant's entertainment license which its attorney says would include putting an end to the music but still allowing alcohol.

The city adopted the ordinance last October which requires businesses to turn off music at least a half hour before they close.

“I think it's after the party,” Alexander Leykiah said.

The restaurant's attorney says the owner plans to challenge two out of the three recent disturbance violations and in a statement said,” With the exception of the first misstep that occurred in January for which accountability is accepted, Los Imperios has been in full compliance with the entertainment ordinance."

While not all neighbors like Sullivan say the place should be shut down for good they do hope its patrons can quiet down the party.

“The town I think it's really kind of stuck” Sullivan said.

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The town of West Hartford is considering suspending the entertainment license of Los Imperios restaurant on Farmington Avenue.

With a captive audience of more than 30 of the most powerful politicians in America, Vice President Mike Pence told the nation’s governors that the administration in the White House is looking out for them when it comes to healthcare policy.

“The truth is, America’s governors have a friend in President Donald Trump,” Pence told the group at the National Governor Association’s Annual Summer Meeting, which was held at a hotel in Providence, Rhode Island.

Pence focused his remarks on the healthcare debate, and most of those comments were directed at sweeping changes to Medicaid funding.

Currently, states receive reimbursement from the federal government based on the money they spend on Medicaid patients’ healthcare. The GOP plan crafted in Senate would cap the amount sent to the states, in either a block grant, or funds could be distributed on a per-capita, per-person basis.

Those changes, appropriating a set amount of money for Medicaid for the first time in a federal budget, the Vice President said, puts the decisions about healthcare back in the states’ hands for the first time since Obamacare was enacted.

“When it comes to Medicaid, not only does the Senate’s healthcare bill expand state flexibility, it ensures that every state in America has the resources you need to take care of your most vulnerable,” Pence told the audience to a smattering of applause.

Governor Dannel Malloy, who did not applaud any of Pence’s remarks on healthcare, said he doesn’t understand how anything the vice president described would help people in Connecticut.

“Either he’s intentionally misstating the facts or incredibly out of touch with reality,” Malloy said during an interview following Pence’s remarks.

Malloy said the existing system allows Connecticut residents who need help paying for healthcare achieve the outcomes they’re hoping for. He’s said in the past that the GOP proposal in the US Senate is cruel to the neediest citizens.

“Medicaid is working,” Malloy said. “If you want to know how well it’s working, ask anyone who has a relative in a nursing home at the age of 95. If you want to know how well it’s working, ask anyone with a disabled child who has chronic or health challenges.”

Republicans in the US Senate would need at least 50 votes to approve the proposed healthcare reform.

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Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the National Governors Conference in Providence, Rhode Island Friday.

It was a special day for patients of the UConn John Dempsey Hospital Friday. Members of the Hartford Yard Goats baseball team and the former Hartford Whalers hockey team visited patients as part of the Yard Goats celebration of the “Whalers Alumni Weekend.”

“When they came in I was like whoa, I wasn’t expecting this like I was… I woke up and I feel better,” said Misquita, who lives in Windsor.

For one patient, the visit was extra special. Ebum Cooper has sickle cell, a very painful red blood cell disease. Her son threw the first pitch game. And this time, it was Cooper they surprised.

“Thank you so much,” she said. “With the Yard Goats and the icing on the cake – the Whalers! I’ve always loved the Whalers.”

“It’s amazing to do something like this and to see the people and just what they’re going through and how excited they are,” Rogers said.

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Members of the Hartford Yard Goats baseball team and the former Hartford Whalers hockey team visited patients at UConn John Dempsey Hospital Friday as part of the Yard Goats celebration of the “Whalers Alumni Weekend.”

Connecticut State Police said that 43-year-old John Kwochka was driving on Cheshire Road (Route 42) in Bethany shortly before 5 p.m.when his car collided with a vehicle traveling the opposite direction.

New London police have arrested a man accused of assaulting a delivery driver while stealing liquor bottles out of a delivery truck.

According to police, 35-year-old Reynaldo Cartagena, of Groton, stole liquor bottles out of a delivery truck that was parked near 345 Bank Street around 11:30 a.m. Friday. When the driver attempted to stop Cartagena, the suspect attacked the driver and ran off.